Higher level built-in strings

[Rory McGuire]

On Tue, 20 Jul 2010 01:51:51 +0200, Jesse Phillips  
<jessekphillips+d at gmail.com> wrote:

> What about:
>
> struct String {
> 	string items;
> 	alias items this;
> }
>
> And add the needed functions you wish to have in string and it will  
> still work in existing functions that operate on immutable(char)[]

You shouldn't need to do that:

string strstr(string haystack, string needle);

can be used as:

string s;
s.strstr("needle");

so you can add "methods" to a string or whatever just by defining  
functions.

-Rory